ABSTRACT
The influence of the interest in logic and formal languages on the development of linguistics has been more substantial. In fact, both wings of the analytic school have, not surprisingly perhaps, come to have close contacts with the empirical science of linguistics and psycholinguistics. Since it is hardly attractive to classify philosophy as a branch of linguistics, the concern has been called the philosophy of language which studies the foundations of linguistics and perhaps also, in a less direct way, the foundations of human knowledge. Many philosophers today regard the theory of meaning as the center of epistemology and, indeed, of philosophy. It is thought that philosophy of language is more fundamental than, say, philosophy of mathematics or physics or biology. Of course, this does not mean that it is therefore a more fruitful subject of study (except perhaps in the sociological sense of getting more attention from professional colleagues), just as we would perhaps all agree that the more funda mental discipline of ontology is not a more fruitful subject to pursue than mathematics or physics.
